• iwasloggedout [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    They were cool but my god the showrunners can't do politics for shit.

    TLA: There's one bad guy, he's evil because he's evil. He has a daughter who's also evil because she's crazy.

    LOK: Ok, time to tell more mature stories.

    Who's the first villain? Communism! Except:

    • The equalist movement picks up an enormous amount of steam basically overnight: their problems with benders dominating society are valid and recognized at large
    • Its pure Great Man Theory that only the charismatic ideologue is able to lead the movement
    • The moment the leader is recognized as lying about being a bender the movement collapses instantly. Guess their issues with how society is structured weren't that valid?
    • Special feature: the eccentric self-made capitalist-inventor

    Then we get the second villain, environmentalism!

    • Except the environmentalist is also a conqueror intending to oppress people
    • And he's doing it in order to dominate the world by doing superpowered mass-scale ecoterrorism
    • Remember the eccentric capitalist? He's back as a war profiteer and it's played for laughs

    Who's the third villain? Anarchists!

    • They don't have a cohesive ideology beyond "rulers bad"
    • They kill a monarch (cool) and then tell the world's largest civilization to idk figure itself out and peace out

    And the last villain? Fascism.

    • The fascist is shown to be correct on the details constantly
    • Her campaign of brutal conquest is successful at unifying the kingdom the anarchists broke apart
    • She builds a superweapon which ends up changing the world for the better
    • The war profiteering capitalist has zero problems with helping the fascists until his own life is threatened
    • Unlike every other villain in the show, the Avatar shows her active empathy and compassion

    I think the showrunners got that terminal :LIB: brain

    • StuporTrooper [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Haven't read it, but I'm pretty sure there's a comic after the show that rehabilitates Kuvira.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I just read on the wiki that Canada won't resettle Tamil Tigers because they "participated in crimes against humanity" and I started guffawing in "what about the fucking mounties and the Ukrainian SS you toolbags"

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        All the comics sucks ass and the Korra ones are specially horrible.